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Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“It's time to disrupt this wall of whiteness,” says interdisciplinary artist Favianna Rodriguez this week on the LF Show. From BLM and MeToo to col...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dispatch 379 - A Song of Democracy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Trucks blasting political songs in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
American’s are no stranger to election songs, but in India election songs are a different ballgame. Though there are plenty of songs, Bollywood and...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Special: Housing is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A reco...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Celebs and Farmer Protests
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Still from the video "RiRi" by Diljit Dosanjh, Credit: Sandip Roy
More and more celebrities are tweeting about the farmer protest in India, and while this is about the backbone of India but it’s not the farmers wh...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Dispatch 370 - Something Funny's Going On
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Faruqui and Khamra's twitter headings
Something funny happened on the way to the comedy club in India but no-one is laughing.

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
S2:E10 The Political Shuffle
From: Classic107.3
Series: Slatkin Shuffle
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Leonard hits shuffle on his iPad...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:46
Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Dispatch 367 - What Rough Beast
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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What happened in the United States might feel shocking. But we gloat at our own peril.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: From Episode 15: The Centennial of W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming (Part 2): Things Fall Apart Today (Much Like A Century Ago). Featuring our discussion with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Prize-winning documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 27:15
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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How does a century-old poem written in Ireland as European civil wars erupted in the aftermath of World War I still resonate in our own partisan er...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 22:36
Episode 4: Counting votes in Philadelphia
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: Keeping Dad Alive
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Richard revels in living in Philadelphia - the historical heart of U.S. democracy and home of his son Scott - while waiting anxiously for the votes...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2020
  • Length: 10:01
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Election 2020 Special: More Than a Vote
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Voting in one of the most momentous presidential elections in the nation’s history is over. The morning after polls closed nearly 136 million ballo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dispatch 358 - Festival of Democracy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Indians now look at the 2020 American elections and understand that there’s chaos that’s colorful and then there’s chaos thats toxic.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
THE BOYS WHO SAID NO! -- Judith Ehrlich Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Judith Ehrlich talks learning lessons, fair use, and the power of words.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 21:19
Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. Self-care becomes a “selfless ac...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science, Comedy & Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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What makes a stand-up comedian wake up one day and decide comedy needs more science? A road comic for 13 years, Shane Mauss made this enlightened d...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 26:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Tug of War
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The judgment of an untested president is all that stands between us and WWIII.

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 16
70 Million: Voting from Jail is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Talman Anderson votes in the Illinois presidential preference primary from the Cook County Jail, Credit: Photo by Pamela Kirkland
A year ago, Illinois passed a law requiring all jails to ensure that pre-trial detainees have an opportunity to vote. Chicago’s Cook County Jail wa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
2020 Election Polling: The Science & Psychology of Polls in a Partisan Age
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Dr. Andrew Smith UNH Survey Center
How much trust can independent-minded voters place in polling this 2020 election season? It seems not a day goes by without multiple new poll res...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Republican Party
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump?

  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 23:12
Dispatch #353: We Need a Gandhi
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A masked statue of Gandhi in San Francisco's Ferry Plaza, Credit: Eric Wayne
Oct. 2nd is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, and in an angry toxic world, we would do well to remember a man who fasted, intermittently, to force us...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
United States Post Office
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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It’s the government on your doorstep — the only Executive Branch agency that visits every home in the country on a regular basis. So how does the U...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 23:52
Political Junkie - Great Moments in Presidential Debates (2020)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin for a review of many great moments from the history of televised presidential debates, with commentary from several...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUWM, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 13

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